By Jason Miller
Thomas Paine's Corner
http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=208
“The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and benificence of God manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty.”
–Thomas Paine from The Age of Reason
